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The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 3316 times as design)
avg rating 4.16 — 43,256 ratings — published 1988
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Voices That Matter)
by (shelved 1828 times as design)
avg rating 4.24 — 29,291 ratings — published 2000
Thinking with Type (Paperback)
by (shelved 1125 times as design)
avg rating 4.11 — 12,138 ratings — published 2004
Universal Principles of Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1076 times as design)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,774 ratings — published 2003
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Paperback)
by (shelved 1026 times as design)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,987 ratings — published 2011
The Elements of Typographic Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 849 times as design)
avg rating 4.25 — 8,951 ratings — published 1992
Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
by (shelved 759 times as design)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,171 ratings — published 2003
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd Ed. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 695 times as design)
avg rating 4.39 — 8,318 ratings — published 1983
Rastersysteme für die visuelle Gestaltung - Grid systems in Graphic Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 663 times as design)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,081 ratings — published 1996
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 658 times as design)
avg rating 3.96 — 295,952 ratings — published 2012
Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 616 times as design)
avg rating 3.89 — 10,622 ratings — published 2009
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 610 times as design)
avg rating 4.19 — 21,950 ratings — published 2016
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products (Hardcover)
by (shelved 597 times as design)
avg rating 4.11 — 44,737 ratings — published 2013
About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 594 times as design)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,496 ratings — published 1995
Envisioning Information (Hardcover)
by (shelved 592 times as design)
avg rating 4.23 — 7,841 ratings — published 1990
Design as Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 541 times as design)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,153 ratings — published 1966
The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)
by (shelved 529 times as design)
avg rating 3.90 — 6,802 ratings — published 2006
Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 522 times as design)
avg rating 3.99 — 6,424 ratings — published 2012
Design Is a Job (Paperback)
by (shelved 513 times as design)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,047 ratings — published 2012
Interaction of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 508 times as design)
avg rating 4.06 — 11,393 ratings — published 1971
The Non-Designer's Design Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 503 times as design)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,708 ratings — published 2011
Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 490 times as design)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,584 ratings — published 1972
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 446 times as design)
avg rating 3.94 — 57,309 ratings — published 2010
How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 424 times as design)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,965 ratings — published 2005
Just Enough Research (Paperback)
by (shelved 420 times as design)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,018 ratings — published 2013
Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All (Hardcover)
by (shelved 418 times as design)
avg rating 3.98 — 13,495 ratings — published 2013
The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web (Paperback)
by (shelved 417 times as design)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,099 ratings — published 2002
Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop (Paperback)
by (shelved 393 times as design)
avg rating 3.87 — 4,039 ratings — published 2003
User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play (Hardcover)
by (shelved 392 times as design)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,516 ratings — published 2019
Articulating Design Decisions: Communicate with Stakeholders, Keep Your Sanity, and Deliver the Best User Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 386 times as design)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,480 ratings — published 2015
Logo Design Love: A Guide to Creating Iconic Brand Identities (Paperback)
by (shelved 379 times as design)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,128 ratings — published 2009
The User Experience Team of One: A Research and Design Survival Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 376 times as design)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,508 ratings — published 2013
Designing for Emotion (Paperback)
by (shelved 362 times as design)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,665 ratings — published 2011
Designing Brand Identity: An Essential Guide for the Whole Branding Team (Hardcover)
by (shelved 352 times as design)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,643 ratings — published 2003
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Paperback)
by (shelved 348 times as design)
avg rating 4.12 — 52,261 ratings — published 2014
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 345 times as design)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,100 ratings — published 1977
How to (Hardcover)
by (shelved 336 times as design)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,048 ratings — published 2015
Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 329 times as design)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,989 ratings — published
Graphic Design: The New Basics (Paperback)
by (shelved 307 times as design)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,171 ratings — published 2008
Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems (Paperback)
by (shelved 296 times as design)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,309 ratings — published 2009
Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)
by (shelved 280 times as design)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,257 ratings — published 2018
Laws of UX: Using Psychology to Design Better Products & Services (Paperback)
by (shelved 271 times as design)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,217 ratings — published
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative (Hardcover)
by (shelved 271 times as design)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,044 ratings — published 1997
Design Is Storytelling (Paperback)
by (shelved 268 times as design)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,366 ratings — published 2017
Thoughts on Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 263 times as design)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,069 ratings — published 1947
Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 263 times as design)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,986 ratings — published 2005
Meggs' History of Graphic Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 259 times as design)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,786 ratings — published 1983
Seductive Interaction Design: Creating Playful, Fun, and Effective User Experiences (Paperback)
by (shelved 253 times as design)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,371 ratings — published 2011
The Art of Looking Sideways (Hardcover)
by (shelved 248 times as design)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,605 ratings — published 2001
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 247 times as design)
avg rating 4.22 — 93,958 ratings — published 2014












